"Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you."
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"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."
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"Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret."
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"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it."
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"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life."
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"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."
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"Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend."
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"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
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"At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything."
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"When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing."
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"Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy."
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"Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test."
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"Treat the world the way you want to be treated."
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"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."
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"In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem."
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"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."
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"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating"
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"Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies."
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"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in."
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"Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius."
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